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January 4, 2019

Cybersecurity
Week in Review: January 4, 2019

This week: Germany's political establishment is hit by data leak; Iran bans Instagram; internet shutdown in the DRC; the U.S. Congress opens federal data sets to AI companies. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin
Blog Post by Adam Segal Net Politics

September 23, 2013

International Organizations
High Stakes UN Diplomacy on Syria and Iran

Two issues will dominate this week’s annual summit of world leaders as the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) kicks off its sixty-eighth session in New York. The first is Syria, whose government …

UNGAopening
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

February 13, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Women Around the World: This Week

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering February 3 to February 13, was compiled w…

Iran women protests
Blog Post by Rachel B. Vogelstein Women and Foreign Policy Program

September 26, 2014

United States
This Week: ISIS struck in Syria and Iraq as the Middle East takes center stage at the UN

Significant Developments Syria. The United States conducted its first ever military strikes against ISIS in Syria this week, targeting primarily oil refineries and infrastructure used for command an…

A pair of U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles fly over northern Iraq after conducting airstrikes in Syria, in this U.S. Air Force handout photo taken early in the morning of September 23, 2014 (Matthew Bruch/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

June 9, 2023

Afghanistan
Women This Week: Afghan Schoolgirls Targeted in Poison Attack

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers June 3 to June 9.   

An Afghan girl reads the Koran in a madrasa or religious school in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 8, 2022.
Blog Post by Noël James Women Around the World